Poster
The introduction of PBL in a Japanese graduate school university as an essential curriculum for Master Program of Information Systems Architecture
Yoshio Tozawa
School of Industrial Technology, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Tokyo, Japan [email protected]
Abstract
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, a public graduate school university, was established on April, 2006, in Tokyo, Japan. Students get the degree of Master of Technology in Information Systems after completion of the program. The new university is expected to introduce new education method so that students can get competencies which work in a real business environment. It is generally regarded that graduates of Japanese universities in IT areas do not have enough skills to work right away, though there are many debates between industrial people and university people. Demand of highly skilled IT people is increasing in Japan. Japanese IT industry managements look at Project Based Learning as an effective method for students to learn practical skills. When the curriculum was designed for the new university, PBL was positioned as the essential program for education. Target students are day-time workers. Students take lectures in the first year, and they devote themselves in PBL in the second year. The first projects of PBL started in April, 2007 and completed in Feb. 2008. As we do not have reference cases in Japan, everything had to be newly designed for conducting PBL. This report describes the challenges, issues and our solutions.
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